Chasing Yesterday
Chapter Nine
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Tomorrow is a distant image held in the back of your mind.
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Well, surely you can imagine what one simple and chaste kiss led to. Sakura did, considering the odd position she woke up in...
Sakura's eyelids slid open, but quickly pulled shut once the butter-y light glowed through the window and onto her face. She groaned quietly as she tried to move. Her silky pink locks were fanned out on the pillow, surrounding her head. She looked like a modern, japanese-styled Sleeping Beauty.
The dark sheets were twisted and wrinkled. Sakura wisped strands of hair out of her face and gazed around the dim room.
"Wha...? Where am I?" Sakura mumured, but slow realization came to her. She was in Sasuke's bedroom. She was laying there, in his bed. And above all, she was naked. Her mouth opened to scream, just no sound came out - none at all, not even a squeak!
Sasuke's grip around her waist tightened and he grumbled before looking at the pinkette with one eye. "Go back to sleep, Sakura." He had said, although it was muffled because of the pillow.
"Did we really do that last night?" She whispered to him as she sat up. Sasuke smirked at her, then his eyes ran up and down her clothes-less torso. She blushed, but was glaring and frowning. "Sasuke... Why the fuck did you take advantage of me?!"
"It didn't seem one-sided last night," He disagreed, still smirking. "You looked and acted like you wanted it too."
Her face turned a deeper crimson shade. Sakura sneered, "I-I wasn't thinking straight! And you kissed me; not the other way around!" Sakura yanked on a loose blanket as she stood. She tried to cover herself as best as she could, but out of all the blankets, she grabbed the shortest and thinest. The pink haired woman moaned in irratation. Her eyes darted towards the raven haired man. Sasuke was now sitting upward, smirking and staring at her.
"Do you remember how many times you -"
She cut him off, "Sick bastard." Their eyes connected in a silent battle; a tortureous and lifeless competition. No one spoke or no one had anything to say to one another.
Half-way through their 'stare down,' Sakura asked, "What is it about me... that turns you on?"
His undeniable smirk widened, "I think it is your hatred for me."
Now she smirked too. "Really? That's the only thing you'll get from me."
He scoffed aloud as he mentally disagreed, Except for your virginity.
Sakura scrutinized the male with dull green eyes. "Since you've stolen the only thing I really have... I'm going to take a shower and then I'm leaving," She explained. She tightly held onto the blanket before turning and heading for the bathroom.
Suddenly, Sasuke appeared in front of her, blocking the entrance. "Wait. You aren't leaving."
"Yes I am, Sasuke. You can't keep me here."
"I can and I'm supposed to."
"I don't care what you're supposed to do. I'm returning to Konohagakure today, tonight, or tomorrow morning. You can't stop me. Not this time..."
"Sakura. I'm ordered -"
"By that wretched snake."
"-to keep you contained here. For my team."
She rolled her eyes and squeezed past him, her partically naked body forced to press against his bare chest. She slammed the door shut behind her.
- XxXx -
"Kyaa! Where's Sasuke-kun lately?!" Karin screeched, tears bubbling in her dark colored eyes.
Suigetsu groaned and moved some hair from his eyes, "I don't know. Don't care."
"How can you not care about Sasuke-kun!!" Her mouth was hanging open.
"Because I'm not gay! I don't bend like that, damn it!" He bellowed.
"Suigetsu! How can you say that to a lady?" Juggo tsk'ed, his voice almost mocking.
Suigetsu grinned, "How can you be sure Karin is a lady?" That sure got him a slap... enforced with chakra.
- XxXx -
"DAMN IT, SASUKE!" She yelled, her eyes narrowed, "I am leaving tomorrow or tonight! There's nothing you can say or do about that!"
"No you aren't!" He hollered back, his eyes transforming into a reddish color.
"I am! God! why can't you leave me alone? Why can't I go home?"
"Because the risk isn't worth taking!"
"I'm not going to tell anyone about your screwed up life or the location of your hideout! Stop worrying!"
"How can I? I'm practically letting a prisoner escape!"
"Um, hello! You said I was going to be part of your 'team!' And if I'm a prisoner, then I can't be a team-mate."
"Don't be a smart ass."
"Don't be a stubborn jackass!"
"Don't be a --" He started.
"Are we going to do a 'don't be a' all day? Because if so, I'll go find someone else for it! Maybe someone like Karin! Or Suigetsu!"
"Sakura, don't be -" He caught himself and sighed in frustration, "Just calm down. Besides, what are you going to tell them once you arrive back there? That you were kidnapped?"
She shook her head and laughed bitterly, "No. I'm going to say 'Sasuke came back and took me away for a vacation!' How stupid do you think I am? As if I'd say that. I'll say..." She hesitated, "say that I thought I lost something on the way back from a mission or I had an emergency outside of town. They'll believe me."
Everyone always does.., She mentally added, frowning.
"..." He said nothing, seeming and looking doubtful, "If you're sure..."
"I'm absolutely positive. Now, let me get my clothes! Which means move your ass!"
Sasuke had been sitting on the edge of the bed. But while Sakura and him were arguing, he had stood up. And coincidentally stepped on all over her scattered clothes from the night before.
"Alright, alright..." He muttered, removing his feet from her shirt, shorts, and undergarments.
"Thanks."
"Hn."
She glanced at him widly, "You're still doing that?"
"Aa."
"Sasuke, stop."
"Hn," He smirked.
"Grr," She growled. He chuckled a little.
- XxXx -
It was currently dead time or three o'clock in the morning. Sakura was lying awake in Sasuke's bed (he had insisted that she slept there... again). Her arms were folded behind her head and her eyes were focused on the damp, stone ceiling. Every now and then, small and light water droplets would fall onto her pale face - which was paler than normal, considering how she hadn't seen sun for more than a few days. Except for yesterday.
Time felt like centuries. Seconds were dragging by so slowly and once they turned into minutes, it wasn't better. Sakura swore it had felt like an hour, but it had only been twelve minutes.
This is torture! Terrible, slow torture! The pink haired woman mentally exclaimed. She tossed in the comfortable bed for the umpteenth time that night. This was beginning to be ridiculous! She'd gotten no sleep all night - which was almost over now. An abrupt thought entered her mind. She would leave soon enough... She would leave now. She rolled out of bed quietly. Sakura studied the room, but them realized that she hadn't brought any clothes on this 'fun and exciting' adventure. Oh no, she hadn't gotten a chance to because she was 'swept off her feet' by Mr. Oh-so-Charming.
"Stupid jerk," She whispered to herself. She peered at him with grassy green eyes. He deserved what he got nearly every time. Sakura knew it too, but she kept trying not to believe it. But now, somehow, she decided that the lone Uchiha should know about her 'disappearance.'
In her script-like handwriting, she wrote a quick goodbye on his bedroom wall with a randomly found pen.
"See? I told you I'd leave. I'm not sure if I'm sorry it'd be this way. Anyways, goodbye." She mouthed the message silently. She quickly labeled her name beneath the sentences and threw the pen onto the bed. Next, she exited the room without more than a second glance.
- XxXx -
Her legs were tired and her eyelids threatened to close more than fifty times now. Her body was swaying side to side and her feet wiggled awkwardly as she lifted one off the ground to walk. Her mind was clouded with crazy thoughts and unclear images.
She had just arrived at Konoha's Eastern gates. Three guards were on patrol, but no one had seen her quite yet.
Once she reached below the arch of the gates, one guard finally spotted her. He yelled from above, "Hey, you! Halt!" Sakura nodded, still in a daze. She was now standing still, her eyes half-lidded, waiting for the guards to hop down.
"Sakura? Sakura!" An embrace from behind suprised her. The pinkette squeaked as she tried to peek over her shoulder.
"Uh, hi? Who is it hugging me?" Sakura asked.
"Forehead! It's me!" The voice was loud and overly excited.
"Ino... Ino!" Sakura smiled. Ino released her and the two women faced each other. "Since when did they put you on nightly patrol?"
Choji jumped down from the thirty-seven feet tall wall and landed beside the blonde. "She insisted once you left," He noted. Sakura nodded and hugged him quickly too.
"It's nice to see you guys. Is Shikamaru here too?" Ino and Choji laughed an shook their heads.
"Do you really think his lazy ass would want to stay up extra hours?" Ino asked, her blue eyes gleaming in the moonlight.
The rosette shook her head, "I guess not."
"Well you'd better report to the Hokage -" Ino started, until she noticed that her long-time friend was swaying, "Sakura? What's wrong?"
"Nothing, nothing. I'm alrig-" She collasped, finally able to sleep. Even though it was against her will this time.
A/n: Well... I think this chapter is pretty long. I mean it's six pages, but that's not a lot, ne? Anyways: I hope you liked it and thanks for reading. Please review! =3
